I've used Namecheap a long time ago, it wasn't bad; after a while I moved things around and was at Godaddy for a while until their support went to crap... I signed up for an SSL cert with them and I couldn't ever get a valid certificate from them (yet with the same data I supplied to eNom I got a certificate there that worked the first time).

If you find an enom reseller they generally offer the dynamic dns service enom has with registrations and it works really well, but they're going to be in the $10+/yr range (my reseller account is $9.45 base and I offset client domains off of that).

it is sorta hard to walk away from 1and1.com given the free privacy registration feature! i will probably end up having a couple of the important domains at namecheap.com and just leave the rest at 1and1.com - unless a better deal comes along.

Yeah, I agree with a lot of people here. NameCheap has some cheap domain names. I've been looking to buy one for a while now and browsing. I'm planning on going with NamCheap or CrazyDomains.com.au because I'm in Australia. Hopefully I'll be able to find a cheap one. CrazyDomains had a deal doing domains for $3 a year the other day, too!

The only one I've ever used, unfortunately, was GoDaddy. I was helping a family member set up a website. We didn't really have many problems, but I did suspect there were cheaper and easier options out there. I wish I had of done more research and heard about the Namecheap option instead.